Three Chazons & Choir Shabbos week-end Krakow POLAND
From 27th June to 30th June 2014
Includes Sunday Auschwitz trip - 4 full days & 3 nights

Think Limmud, with the atmosphere of the Edinburgh festival in Jewish Kazimeirz with hundreds of lectures films dance and Jewish music styles. The ruach oozes out of its cobbled streets like nothing else you will ever experience in what is recognised as the best Jewish music festival in the world today. Three concerts plus per night choice plus interesting daily lectures and films view website for a flavour of this festival

Total combined cost is approx £395 pp [not including flights] includes sharing double/twin Hotel B & B, kosher food on Shabbat only and all trips fees museum entries guide costs and full day in Auschwitz-Birkenau together with visit to Oswiecien Jewish museum and Synagogue plus main Chazon concert ticket on Sunday night. Optional extra nights available from the 30th June at £65 per day as the festival does not finish till the 7 hour grand Shalom concert finally on Saturday the 5th July

Staying at the Astoria Hotel in Josefa Kazimierz good modern 3 star air conditioned in Ulica Josefa No 24 see www.astoriahotel.pl who have upgraded some rooms and have suites at extra cost

Fly out Friday 27th June 2014 RyanAir Stansted to Krakow 08.40 Flight No 2432 lands at 12.05 and returns on Monday 30th June return from Krakow at 21.55 Flight No 2437 landing at Stansted at 23.15 all flights have to be booked by yourselves on www.ryanair.com ASAP and confirm to Marcel once you have booked your flight so hotel reservation can be made in your name. There are 4 & 5 * Hotels available on request

You will be privileged to be in Krakow at the start of the 24th annual Jewish heritage festival for vast programme of events lectures and music on offer, nearer the date see http://www.jewishfestival.pl/index,en.html

ITINERARY:

Friday 27th June 2014 2.30pm When our group has a 2.5 hour walking tour of the Jewish quarter Kazimierz including Szeroka Square - visiting museums, 7 shuls and cemeteries. The tour incorporates the newly rebuilt Kupa, Remuh, Temple and Isaac High Popper & Temple Synagogues and also focuses on ‘HOW JEWS LIVED in Krakow for over 700 years’ and why it was called the Galician Jerusalem’ 7.30pm Kabbalah Shabbos at Temple shule followed by meal at the Eden Hotel.

Shabbos 28th June 2014 9.00am Shabbos at the Temple Shule with famous Chazonim Ben Zion-Miller, Alberto Mizrachi & a third guest chazzan plus choir followed by 1pm Shabbat meal at the Eden Hotel followed by casual afternoon walk 2.30pm to see the beauty and splendour of the medieval main town Square via Wawel Castle and river.

Mincha at the Isaac shule followed by seudar shlishit at the Eden Hotel before Maariv followed by Melava Malka at the Temple Shule till late.

Sunday 29th June 2014 - 8.30am Coach leaves for Auschwitz-Birkenau which arrives approx 9.45am and will spend approximately 4.5 hours there with guide. We will conclude with Minchah & Kinnah for the victims of the Shoah and a memorial prayer for the Martyrs concluded by shofar blowing at the end of the railway track in Birkenau where the crematoriums were. Following Auschwitz-Birkenau we will visit new museum and Holocaust Centre in the nearby town of Oswiecim [see their interesting website with reconstructed Synagogue and relaxing in their conference room where we will watch a holocaust related film and discussion.
7pm Main Chazonim Concert 3 Chazons and a choir Chazonim Ben Zion-Miller Alberto Mizrachi & 3rd Chazon with choir tickets are £40 ground floor upstairs £25 – Total cost of trip is £395 if ticket not required then £355 per person.

Monday 30th June 2014 – 9.30am Walk across bridge and over Wisla river to wartime ghetto in Podgorze visiting heroes square Chemist under eagle museum and Shindlers factory.
Afternoon free to relax in Krakow or indeed visit places of interest like the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine before departing for airport at 7.30pm to catch the 9.55pm flight home.

Please confirm to me once flights booked so I can reserve your hotel room, extended trip also possible with additional 4* & 5* hotel options such as the Rubinstein ..please contact Marcel on 0208 9545074

Deposits of £100 per person are required to reserve a place as hotel places are limited during the festival and we are restricted with rooms